I went with some friends mid-week to experience the Gawsworth Church Christmas Tree festival held 6th- 15th December. The church looked beautiful with all the twinkling trees and was enhanced by live carol music from the organ. The St Boniface books I had donated for the festival had been moving like a best seller. Val Hayward, the illustrator, and I had our photograph taken with the last copy just before it was purchased (and signed by both of us) for an enthusiastic grandmother with four grandchildren.

The high spot of this signing session was meeting a very good customer who is disabled. Kim uses a wheelchair and the brilliant assistance of Ike, a black Labrador who came to her from Dogs for the Disabled. A wonderful charity, high on my list of good causes to support.

“Of Dogs and Cats and Bear” was launched on March 22nd 2013 at the Art Yard Café in Macclesfield.

Jenny signing books

Jenny reading from her new book

It was warm and cosy in the Art Café which was just as well as I could not have picked a worse night for weather if I had tried! It was blizzards and drifts, and several people were snowed in and prevented from coming. But many noble souls made it and their determination contributed to a splendid evening..